Public Administration Optional Test 4

1. Critically examine the positive and negative roles of ideology and culture in administrative development.

2. Why is le droit administrative regarded alongside the Napoleonic Code as the most notable achievement of French legal science?

3. In what way the knowledge of the processes of group behaviour would help a manager? Explain with examples.

4. Democracy and good governance are contradictions in terms. Critically examine (stating examples) the appropriateness of this statement in today’s era.

5. Government has been slow in using modern methods for discovering executive talent. Examine the validity of the statement with reference to recruitment to higher civil service in India,USA and UK.

6. Comparative Public Administration both resembles and differs from modern organization theory. Elaborate.

7. “There is a constant and continuous collision between bureaucratic values and democratic values which adversely affects development.” In the light of this statement examine the role of bureaucracy in development.

8. It is said that the generalist rationale was part of a revealed truth. All of us should have known better, for in a world of increasing scientific and technical complexity, it has compelling inadequacies. Discuss.

9. Do you agree that globalization, liberalization and privatization policies are going to change the very fabric of Indian Administration? What, according to you, are the major challenges before it in the 21st century?

10. ‘Citizen’s charter’ is the most important innovation in the context of promotion of customer-orientation of administration”.

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